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IN Japan the pressure of a growing population has focused attention on the further development of industry, since in the next decade Japan has to find food and employment for nearly ten million more people than she does to-day. That the problem of industrial efficiency is being seriously tackled is evidenced in the annual report of the Director of the Japanese Institute of the Science of Labour at Kurasiki. This Institute was founded some years ago to undertake research into the physiological, psychological and environmental conditions affecting workers and their output. Research committees have recently been organised to. investigate problems such as the rationalisation of labour, industrial fatigue, factory conditions and the appropriate qualifications to be desired of workers in every branch of Japanese industrial life. This latter investigation has already led to the establishment of standard norms for the mental and physical development of young Japanese workers aged 12–20 years. Occupational diseases have also been studied, v and i attention: has been paid to skin diseases among typical Japanese manual workers such as stevedores, octopus fishers, plasterers, carpenters and blacksmiths. Every effort is made by the Institute to maintain close contacts with industry, and its Journal is now to be issued bi-monthly instead of quarterly, so that the results of its researches may be available as soon as possible. Recently also the Japanese Association of Industrial Hygiene—an organisation which is closely connected with the Institute—has considerably increased its activities.
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Industrial Health in Japan. Nature 133, 244 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133244d0
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